Some of the guys on this list I was not old enough to see/remember playing but I'll include them anyway.

1. Sam Bradford- The best pure pocket passer in OU history and obviously a Heisman Trophy winner.
2. Jimmy Harris- The guy went 25-0 as a starter during the 47 game win streak and won 2 National Championships in 1955 and 1956.
3. Steve Davis- He went 33-1-1 as a starter and won 2 National Championships as well in 1974 and 1975.
4. Jamelle Holieway- Probably the fastest quarterback we've ever had (one could debate that with Charles Thompson), won National Championship in 1985, the ankle kept him from
winning OU another title in 1987.
5. Jason White- Obviously he won the Heisman Trophy but was a great passer and nearly brought us 2 National Championships. He led what, in my opinion, was the greatest
regular season team in college football history (the 2003 team).
6. Jack Mildren- Switzer installed the wishbone and Jack was the first one to run it and he ran it to perfection. Almost won a title in 1971 and he led an offense that set
multiple national records that will never be broken.
7. Landry Jones- People all have their opinions but Landry has all of the school records for passing. He wasn't perfect by any means
but he was overall a very good quarterback. Maybe it was the system but the guy still won us 3 bowl games and 39 overall.
8. Josh Heupel- Josh wasn't perfect either but Heupel just had the "it" factor. He was a great leader and of course brought us the title in 2000.
9. J.C. Watts- Great quarterback during the Switzer years. Really you could put either J.C. or Thomas Lott in this spot.
10. Claude Arnold- Great quarterback under Wilkinson and brought OU its first National Championship in 1950.

Eric Moore was awful. Fuente was probably the most talented of the Schnelly/Blake guys. McGee wasn't horrible. Fletcher made plays in a few games which is more than you can say for most of the QBs in that era. But even Bomar who couldn't handle snaps at OU was probably better than any of the QBs of the 90s. I just can't put Bomar in a top 10 of QBs when he couldn't even handle snaps, and was a turnover machine.

My earliest memory of an OU QB is Kelly Phelps. I remember when JC Watts was the QB but I didn't watch the games then, I was 8 or so. I wish I could put the 70's QB's in my list but, I'm just not old enough.

Some of the guys on this list I was not old enough to see/remember playing but I'll include them anyway.

1. Sam Bradford- The best pure pocket passer in OU history and obviously a Heisman Trophy winner.
2. Jimmy Harris- The guy went 25-0 as a starter during the 47 game win streak and won 2 National Championships in 1955 and 1956.
3. Steve Davis- He went 33-1-1 as a starter and won 2 National Championships as well in 1974 and 1975.
4. Jamelle Holieway- Probably the fastest quarterback we've ever had (one could debate that with Charles Thompson), won National Championship in 1985, the ankle kept him from
winning OU another title in 1987.
5. Jason White- Obviously he won the Heisman Trophy but was a great passer and nearly brought us 2 National Championships. He led what, in my opinion, was the greatest
regular season team in college football history (the 2003 team).
6. Jack Mildren- Switzer installed the wishbone and Jack was the first one to run it and he ran it to perfection. Almost won a title in 1971 and he led an offense that set
multiple national records that will never be broken.
7. Landry Jones- People all have their opinions but Landry has all of the school records for passing. He wasn't perfect by any means
but he was overall a very good quarterback. Maybe it was the system but the guy still won us 3 bowl games and 39 overall.
8. Josh Heupel- Josh wasn't perfect either but Heupel just had the "it" factor. He was a great leader and of course brought us the title in 2000.
9. J.C. Watts- Great quarterback during the Switzer years. Really you could put either J.C. or Thomas Lott in this spot.
10. Claude Arnold- Great quarterback under Wilkinson and brought OU its first National Championship in 1950.

As an outsider I always had more fear of Heupel than White. White to me was like a lot of pedestrian guys who look good when they are protected but look horrendous under pressure. Compared to Heupel who could ad lib much better and was just as accurate it's no contest.

Don't give me the stat argument. Unless Heuepl was throwing to 3-4 NFL wideouts and handing off to A.D while being protected by Jammal Brown & Davin Joseph it really isn't apples to apples.

As an outsider I always had more fear of Heupel than White. White to me was like a lot of pedestrian guys who look good when they are protected but look horrendous under pressure. Compared to Heupel who could ad lib much better and was just as accurate it's no contest.

Don't give me the stat argument. Unless Heuepl was throwing to 3-4 NFL wideouts and handing off to A.D while being protected by Jammal Brown & Davin Joseph it really isn't apples to apples.

True. Heupel didn't have as many weapons as White did. However, I still give White the benefit of the doubt. What I think a lot of people appreciate is the fact that he changed his game up from more of an option guy to a pocket passer after two knee operations. White also threw a great deep ball.

True. Heupel didn't have as many weapons as White did. However, I still give White the benefit of the doubt. What I think a lot of people appreciate is the fact that he changed his game up from more of an option guy to a pocket passer after two knee operations. White also threw a great deep ball.

I'm not saying White was a bad QB but I feel like OU does far better against USC & LSU's defenses than White did and 2000 OU doesn't sniff a title with White instead of Heupel.

He played quarterback on the Associated Press national championship Oklahoma Sooners football teams in 1974 and 1975 and on four Big 8 Conference championship teams from 1974-77. In 1975, he won the Jay Meyer award as the top scholar athlete at OU

I loved Jamelle (in fact he was my favorite 'bone QB) but he was never the fastest QB on his own team. What he was was stout. If you tried to arm tackle him, he was likely to run through it. Both CT & Mitchel were both considerably faster, but if you could get a bead on them, they usually went down.

FWIW, I remember listening to a Switzer interview a few years back, & FWIW, he said that when it came to running the triple option, Holieway was his best best by a considerable margin. He said that in JH's entire time at OU, he made 1 wrong read in all the times it was called (in the '88 USC loss).

He played quarterback on the Associated Press national championship Oklahoma Sooners football teams in 1974 and 1975 and on four Big 8 Conference championship teams from 1974-77. In 1975, he won the Jay Meyer award as the top scholar athlete at OU

We might have had a shot that one year had he not gotten the....mmmmm..."mumps".

He played quarterback on the Associated Press national championship Oklahoma Sooners football teams in 1974 and 1975 and on four Big 8 Conference championship teams from 1974-77. In 1975, he won the Jay Meyer award as the top scholar athlete at OU

I wanted to put Blevins on my list because his QB rating was high enough to get him in the top 6 but he threw for less than 50 yards a game (my memory of Blevin's was all good. I don't know why everyone here treats him the way that they do). Holieway barely made it on my list with 55 ypg. A guy from 70-72 that most people haven't heard of, Dave Robertson had the 3rd best QB rating but again, only threw for 37 ypg. Although these guys were great field generals with high QB ratings, there has to be a line where they are considered a RB and not a QB. I'd like to see top passer at the top of these lists so it's not so conusing with the history that we've had running the wishbone and split t veer offenses. It's not really fair to list a guy as a top RB and then turn around and list him as a top QB. I guess someone needs to start a list where the criteria is total offensive production. I saw a lot of big name receivers with outrageous YPC numbers when looking at RB numbers. George Cumby was a good RB with 9 ypc before moving to the defensive side of the ball. He didn't get enough carries to make a list.

Paul Thompson should probably be below Steve Davis (my favorite QB) and Josh Heupel but he's still one of my favorite QBs that I felt got screwed because the fans wanted Bomar and Stoops was too chickenshit (for lack of a better word) to make the right decision. They both sucked in that opening loss to TCU. Thompson was the players QB and Bomar was Stoops and the fans QB. Bomar was so enept against Tulsa that we ran the ball on every down of the second half against Tulsa for fear of getting embarassed against them also.

Looking at Bradford and White's numbers which were good enough to get them a Heisman trophy pisses me off even more at Stoops for forcing LJ to throw the ball more than both of them combined and tossing the running game out the window. If we come out next year with this same old shit then I'm officially calling for his head. I'd like to get back to at least running the ball as much as we did with Bradford and White, if not more, now that we have QBs who can run the ball. We don't need to run the ball as much as we did with Holieway but...

Looking at Bradford and White's numbers which were good enough to get them a Heisman trophy pisses me off even more at Stoops for forcing LJ to throw the ball more than both of them combined and tossing the running game out the window. If we come out next year with this same old shit then I'm officially calling for his head. I'd like to get back to at least running the ball as much as we did with Bradford and White, if not more, now that we have QBs who can run the ball. We don't need to run the ball as much as we did with Holieway but...

The direction we've gone has made the o-line very soft. I agree completely. We've abandoned the running game, a trademark for Oklahoma football for generations. Even 4 years ago, I would have never thought I'd see OU run the ball so little. Landry threw 71 times against Oklahoma State. You know there's a problem if your quarterback is throwing 71 times. A quarterback shouldn't throw 71 times in 4 OTs. We went to OT vs. OSU but Jones didn't throw a pass. SMH at the lack of run game.